Reflection Questions:

1. What is your nightly routine?
2. How do your nightly habits shape you?
3. What keeps you from sleep? What keeps you up at night?
4. What do your sleep patterns, struggles, or habits reveal about your lives, fears, commitments, and what you trust?
5. In your opinion, what is the link between daily sleep and the reality of death?
6. How are physical and spiritual rest related to each other?
7. Do you believe that God can sometimes work more in you as you sleep than when you are awake? Why or why not?

Suggested Practice:

1. Think through your nightly liturgy. Make sure it is teaching you good habits of rest. Go to bed on time and get enough sleep. Reflect on or journal about how a week of good rest affects you spiritually and physically.
2. Talk to a family member or friend about the things that keep you from rest. Pray about them.
3. If you do not practice a weekly day of rest, do so this week. Reflect on how it affects you and your view of time, limits, your body, and God.